“Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.“
- Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
- James Madison
“There are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
- James Madison
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
- George Washington
“The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy to our people.”
- Ron Paul
